Journal of Family Social Work
Last updated ISSN 1052-2158
Journal of Family Social Work is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Family Social Work concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Family Support in Illness
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1052-2158, 1540-4072 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 758 |
| Publishing since | 1994 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/wfsw20/current |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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